Originally Posted by Unregistered

I done both before but don't wish to go into details what I am doing now. I did Financial Institutional (FI) Sales in global markets selling swaps, derivatives, structured products , fixed income to other FIs and also in consumer banking DCI, equity linked, accumulator, bonds, basic FX to the high networth individual. Although on surface, it seems to be a huge difference in prestige, knowledge, exposure and possibly income, but in reality not much difference in compensation. The big bucks are not only earned in Goldman Sachs dealing room as a interest rate derivative sales director for example but also insignificant local bank TSO doing a normal day-in day-out buying and selling of AUD from and to SGD. You will be surprised by how much the latter can earn as compared to those guys in dealing room....